Plays for One Performer
Discover fringe-theatre shows turned award-winning TV series, memoir-monologues, writer-actor collaborations and so many more excellent examples of solo shows in our collection below.
If you're a theatre-maker interested in creating your own solo show, there's no better place to start than with Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide, by Lisa Carroll and Milly Thomas – both experienced solo-show writers, who teach popular workshops on getting to grips with the form.
Discover 10 top tips to make your solo show memorable, an extract from Lisa and Milly's book over on our blog.
Nightwatchman
A British Sri Lankan cricketer prepares for the innings of her life for England against Sri Lanka at Lord’s.
- Ebook
£6.99£5.59
St Nicholas
An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Rum and Vodka
A short monologue play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
The Good Thief
A monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Stacy
A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
One Way Street
A one-man show set in eastern Berlin in 1995, in which Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to the city.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Drip Feed
An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
The Half Of It
A darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Thrown
A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Madame Ovary
The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
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